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Since then, there have been other reports describing various saprophytic fungal organisms in cultures from allergic mucin.
The three ecological groups of mushrooms are mycorrhizal, parasitic and saprophytic mushrooms.
Most are saprophytic similar to true fungi. v. Sexual life cycle is diplontic, fungi have haplontic cycle.
Specific carbohydrates are hypothesized to have a key role in the transition from the parasitic to saprophytic stage.
It is in practice an obligate parasite, surviving in citrus or in a variety of other host plants, with no saprophytic phase.
Perform an appropriate dilution plating technique aiming to ensure that any background saprophytic colonyforming populations are diluted out.
On dead plants too many saprophytic fungi and bacteria are found that could conceal the real cause of disease.
Not all fungal spores found in air samples have the potential to cause disease and are called saprophytic.
It is a saprophytic plant, i.e. it lives in symbiosis with a fungus that breaks down dead plant material.
Inhibition of the fungus can be obtained by spraying with saprophytic fungi.
Forget-me-nots bloom in the spring, along with strawberries and iris, and you may even see a few striking red spotted coralroots, a saprophytic orchid.
Thus, the evolution of a completely saprophytic life cycle in different groups of orchids is not surprising.
A saprophytic fungus may then overgrow the honeydew and convert it into a sticky black mat.
Gloves are designed to protect the patient from the surgeon's skin, where germs may not be saprophytic for all concerned!
This saprophytic phase can allow an increase in the population of the pathogen.
Aphid honeydew, a potential stimulant of Cochliobolus sativus and Septoria nodorum and the competitive role of saprophytic mycoflora.
However, in pathogen-induced cracks, a brownish-yellow bacterial slime is visible, often overgrown with saprophytic fungi such as Cladosporium herbarum.
Most tremorgenic mycotoxins are synthesized by common saprophytic moulds of the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus.
The saprophytic and pathogenic fungi on barley kernels induce various symptoms.
Two of these groups included both phytopathogenic and saprophytic strains.
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In the second group, the bacterial species lives a saprophytic existence, growing in milk, if it happens to find its way therein.
Many are exclusively parasitic or saprophytic, and many are facultative, both conditions of living being possible.
Some parasites are able to lead a saprophytic existence also, but as a rule they live at the expense of animal or plant life.
These can no more be attacked during their saprophytic existence than those just mentioned.
Von Fodor showed that saprophytic bacteria injected into the blood are rapidly destroyed.
The saprophytic bacteria are the bacteria of decay, putrefaction, and fermentation.
Nearly all bacteria, owing to the absence of chlorophyll, are saprophytic or parasitic forms.
That these later organisms are saprophytic, although not bacterial, there can be no doubt.
It is easy to understand the relation of the saprophytic and the holophytic Flagellates to true plants.
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